Perfect Quotes - Page 27

• Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.

  Yukio Mishima

  Blood, Lines, Purity

  "Runaway Horses". Book by Yukio Mishima, 1969.

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• I do what I've trained my whole life to do. I watch the ball. I keep my eye on the ball. I never stop watching. I watch it as it sails past me and lands in the catcher's mitt, a perfect and glorious strike three.

  Barry Lyga

  Eye, Past, Land

  Barry Lyga (2007). “Boy Toy”, p.372, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• How many of us will be saved the pain of seeing the most important things in our lives disappearing from one moment to the next? I don't just mean people, but our ideas and dreams too: we might survive a day, a week, a few years, but we're all condemned to lose. Our body remains alive, yet sooner or later our soul will receive the mortal blow. The perfect crime - for we don't know who murdered our joy, what their motives were, or where the guilty parties are to be found...they too are the victims of the reality they created.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Pain, Party

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• Its tall chimneys throw up black smoke, impregnating everything with soot, and the miners' faces as they traveled the streets were also imbued with that ancient melancholy of smoke, unifying everything with its grayish monotones, a perfect coupling with the gray mountain days.

  Che Guevara

  Black, Mountain, Faces

  Che Guevara (2013). “The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey”, Ocean Press

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• A perfectly evil Devil makes even less sense than a perfect God.

  Anne Rice

  Evil, Devil

  Anne Rice (1992). “The Tale of the Body Thief”, A.A. Knopf Canada

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• For the first time in longer than I can remember, I feel peaceful. Not happy. Not sad. Not anxious. Not horny. Just all the higher parts of my brain closing up shop. The cerebral cortex. The cerebellum. That's where my problem is. I'm now simplifying myself. Somewhere balanced in the perfect middle between happiness and sadness. Because sponges never have a bad day.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Sadness, Bad Day, Closing Up

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• It's all very well to put the government in the hands of the perfect man, but what do you do when the perfect man gets a bellyache?

  David Eddings

  Men, Hands, Wells

  David Eddings, Leigh Eddings (1996). “Belgarath the Sorcerer”, Del Rey Books

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• I did not love cold harmony and perfect regularity of organization; what I sought was variety, mystery, tradition, the venerable, the awful. I despised sophisters and calculators; I was groping for faith, honor, and prescriptive loyalties. I would have given any number of neo-classical pediments for one poor battered gargoyle.

  Russell Kirk

  Loyalty, Organization, Numbers

  Russell Kirk (2014). “The Essential Russell Kirk: Selected Essays”, p.213, Open Road Media

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• When my grandmother was alive, she used to tell me that every time God creates a soul in heaven, he creates another to become its special mate. And that once we're born, we begin our search for our soul mate, the one person who's the perfect fit for our mind and body. They lucky oens find each other.

  Lurlene McDaniel

  Grandmother, Heaven, Soul

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• (From the story The Last Days of a Famous Mime) He said nothing. He was mildly annoyed at her presumption: that he had not thought this many, many times before. With perfect misunderstanding she interpreted his passivity as disdain. Wishing to hurt him, she slapped his face. Wishing to hurt her, he smiled brilliantly.

  Peter Carey

  Hurt, Annoyed, Wish

  Peter Carey (1994). “Collected stories”

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• You can't really succeed with a novel anyway; they're too big. It's like city planning. You can't plan a perfect city because there's too much going on that you can't take into account. You can, however, write a perfect sentence now and then. I have.

  Gore Vidal

  Writing, Cities, City Planning

  Gore Vidal, Richard Peabody, Lucinda Ebersole (2005). “Conversations with Gore Vidal”, p.137, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• You, have this whole tall, dark stranger thing going on. Not to mention the tortured artist bit. And you, have that whole blonde cool and collected perfect smart thing going on. You're the boy all the girls want to rebel with. You, are the unattainable girl in homeroom who never gives a guy the time of day.

  Sarah Dessen

  Girl, Smart, Dark

  "The Truth About Forever". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2004.

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• the only perfect people are dead people, because their the only ones who can't make mistakes!

  Eric Jerome Dickey

  Mistake, People, Making Mistakes

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• I rarely cry. I save my feelings up inside me like I have something more specific in mind for them. I am waiting for the exact perfect situationand then BOOM! I'll explode in a light show of feeling and emotion - a pinata stuffed with tender nuances and pent-up passions

  Carrie Fisher

  Passion, Light, Waiting

  Carrie Fisher (2011). “Postcards From the Edge”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• I saw a girl complaining that the pain of not being seen was unbearable... Now I have perfect understanding. I have already experienced the worst. After this, there is no worse possible thing.

  Amy Tan

  Girl, Pain, Understanding

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• Be fearless. Have the courage to take risks. Go where there are no guarantees. Get out of your comfort zone even if it means being uncomfortable. The road less traveled is sometimes fraught with barricades bumps and uncharted terrain. But it is on that road where your character is truly tested And have the courage to accept that you’re not perfect nothing is and no one is — and that’s OK.

  Katie Couric

  Inspirational, Life, Fear

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• And finally - he was neither able nor willing to prevent it - the self-loathing dammed up inside him spilled over and gushed out, gushed out of glaring eyes that grew ever grimmer, angrier, beneath the rim of his cap, flooding the outside world as perfect, vulgar hate.

  Patrick Süskind

  Hate, Eye, Self

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• Yet part of me also thinks the whole idea makes perfect sense. The three of us, leaving our differences behind, stepping on the plane together, sitting side by side, lifting off, moving West to reach the East.

  Amy Tan

  Moving, Thinking, Differences

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.184, Penguin

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• With everything so perfect, reality seemed somehow fragile, as if the slightest interruption could imperil her pretty future... all of it felt as tenuous as a soap bubble, shivering and empty.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Life, Reality, Soap

  Scott Westerfeld (2010). “Pretties”, p.297, Simon and Schuster

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• Your Majesty would have a perfect right to strike off his head," said Peridan. "Such an assault as he made puts him on a level with assassins." "It is very true," said Edmund. "But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did." And he looked very thoughtful.

  C. S. Lewis

  Thoughtful, Majesty, Levels

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol V: The Horse and his Boy”, p.160, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• It was one of those moments of perfect tiredness, of having conquered not only the work at hand, but the night who had blocked the way.

  Markus Zusak

  Night, Hands, Way

  Markus Zusak (2016). “The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.67, Random House

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• To be conservative, then, is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the sufficient to the superabundant, the convenient to the perfect, present laughter to utopian bliss.

  Michael Joseph Oakeshott

  Laughter, Facts, Conservative

  "On Being Conservative". Essay by Michael Joseph Oakeshott, 1956.

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• No Man has a more perfect reliance on the all-wise and powerful dispensations of the Supreme Being than I have, nor thinks his aid more necessary...The man must be bad indeed who can look upon the events of the American Revolution without feeling the warmest gratitude towards the great Author of the Universe whose divine interposition was so frequently manifested in our behalf....In war He directed the sword, and in peace, He has ruled in our councils.

  George Washington

  Wise, Gratitude, Powerful

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• She says, "But in contentment I still feel The need for imperishable bliss." Death is the mother of beauty; hence from her, Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams And our desires. Is there no change of death in paradise? Does ripe fruit never fall? or do the boughs Hang always heavy in that perfect sky, Unchanging, yet so like our perishing earth, With rivers like our own that seek for seas They never find, the same receding shores That never touch with inarticulate pang?

  Wallace Stevens

  Death, Mother, Dream

  Wallace Stevens, “Sunday Morning”

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• The church is not a place where perfect people gather to say perfect things, or have perfect thoughts, or have perfect feelings. The Church is a place where imperfect people gather to provide encouragement, support, and service to each other as we press on in our journey to return to our Heavenly Father.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Encouragement, Father, Journey

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